README.md

Book-Shelf-App

Basic CRUD application with Express backend, React frontend and MongoDB database.

Instructions to start app locally

Download the app as a zip folder from github.

1. Set up database

If you have Brew installed you can skip the first command, and if you have Brew and MongoDB installed you have to use only the last three commands of phase 1.

App is using MongoDB, so if your computer does not have MongoDB installed we need to install it. MongoDB can be installed by using Brew. If you dont have Brew installed you can do it by running command

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Once Brew is installed run command

brew tap mongodb/brew

Now you can install mongodb-community by running command

brew install mongodb-community@4.4

Once the install is complete you can run MongoDB by command

brew services start mongodb-community@4.4

Now you can start MongoDB shell in your terminal with command

mongo

To switch database type following command to MongoDB shell

use bookshelf

Now the database should be up and running. Now we need to set up the server and client.

2. Set up client and server

Navigate to the downloaded project folder in your terminal. It should be called Book-Shelf-App-master

Run command

npm install

Navigate to client folder and run command

npm install

Now navigate back to the project main folder "Book-Shelf-App-master" and run command

npm run dev

Now project should be up and running!